Where does “နလပိန်းတုံး” come from?

နလပိန်းတုံး (Burmese) comes from Burmese န, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-ŋa-k — forehead; cockscomb.

နလပိန်းတုံး (Burmese): blockhead, dumbbell, dumb person, ding-dong

Definitions

  1. blockhead, dumbbell, dumb person, ding-dong

Ancestry of “နလပိန်းတုံး”, step by step

နလပိန်းတုံး traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Burmese န

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1BurmeseနNa, the 21st letter of the Burmese alphabet
2Proto-Sino-Tibetans-ŋa-kforehead; cockscomb

via Burmese လ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseလmoon; month

via Burmese တုံး

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Burmeseတုံးto chop, cut (into pieces)
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan s-ŋa-k →Every word from Burmese န →